H P Lovecraft: 911 books

The story takes place in Providence, Rhode Island and revolves around the Church of Starry Wisdom. The cult uses an ancient artifact known as the Shining Trapezohedron to summon a terrible being from the depths of time and space. The Shining Trapezohedron was discovered in Egyptian ruins, in a box...

Thomas Olney, a "philosopher" visiting the town of Kingsport, Massachusetts with his family, is intrigued by a strange house on a cliff overlooking the ocean. It is unaccountably high and old and the locals have a generations-long dread of the place which no one is known to have visited....

The story is narrated by the scion of the Delapore family, who has moved from Massachusetts to his ancestral estate in England, known as Exham Priory. On several occasions, the protagonist and his cats hear the sounds of rats scurrying behind the walls. Upon investigating further, he finds that his...

At a gathering to decide the fate of Randolph Carter's estate which has been held in trust since his disappearance the mysterious Swami Chandraputra, who wears curious mittens and enveloping robes, tells Carter's acquaintances of his ultimate fate. He explains that the key took Carter to a type of...

Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, takes a room in the Witch House, a house in Arkham thought to be accursed. The first part of the story is an account of the history of the house, which has once harboured Keziah Mason, an accused witch who disappeared mysteriously...

The tale concerns the relationship between Stephen Jones and George Rogers, the owner of a private wax museum specialising in the grotesque. Initially cordial, it degenerates as Jones first mocks Rogers then comes to suspect that he is demented with his "wild tales and suggestions of rites and...

A man touring a Mammoth Cave separates from his guide and becomes lost. His torch expires and he is giving up hope of finding a way out in the pitch dark, when he hears strange non-human footsteps approaching him. Thinking it to be a lost mountain lion or other such beast, he picks up a stone and...

On a mountain which was a chosen haunt for the Greek God Pan is an olive grove, and a fearful, human-like olive tree within it

Supongo que lo que surgió de las aguas, la espantosa ciudadela coronada por el monolito, en la que está enterrado el gran Cthulhu, era una simple cúspide. Cuando pienso en la extensión de todo lo que debe haber debajo, casi deseo darme muerte. Johansen y los suyos se quedaron espantados ante la...

LOS MITOS DE CTHULHU, ciclo de narraciones de horror cósmico ambientadas en muchos primigenios de caos y espanto. El presente volumen ofrece un a completa panorámica del desarrollo de los mitos y reúne las piezas fundamentales en la configuración de ese singular e inquietante universo.

El relato narra en primera persona la historia de Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee, un profesor de Economía de la Universidad de Miskatonic que entre 1908 y 1913 sufre una inexplicable amnesia y trastorno de la personalidad cuyo trasfondo tratará de descubrir a pesar de las cosas terribles...

La Habitación Cerrada reune diez relatos fruto de esa singular asociación, en los que están presentes todas las obsesiones de ese universo literario de horrores arquetípicos, caos abismal y oscuridad primigenía.

(Providence, 1890 - 1937) Escritor estadounidense. Maestro indiscutible de la literatura fantástica, su obra rebasa en realidad la confluencia de géneros como la literatura de terror y la ciencia ficción hasta cristalizar en una narrativa única que recrea una mitología...

Los seis cuentos pertenecen a ese universo onírico en el que se libra la eterna lucha entre las fuerzas del bien y del mal lovecraftiano. Los seis relatos incluidos en este volumen bajo el título de LA MÁSCARA DE CTHULHU versan sobre temas, situaciones y personajes bien conocidos por los aficionados...